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RetailNext takes home $125 million in growth funding to power tomorrow’s smart stores
Analytics may not have evolved far enough yet to capture the full complexity of the climate system, but the technology can help retailers figure out how weather changes will influence the shopping habits of their customers. That’s one of the many features touted by RetailNext Inc., which just raised a massive $125 million in funding ...
Intel among investors in Cisco vets’ mysterious security startup
A stealthy startup called Skyport Systems Inc. received its first share of the limelight this morning after landing $30 million in funding from a group of investors by Index Ventures and including Intel Capital to drive a “fundamentally new approach to security”. That’s about as much as the team is willing to reveal. But the ...
Nginx 6 gives a DevOps leg-up to cloud applications
Nginx Inc. is augmenting the commercial version of its widely-used Web server with new functionality meant to help organizations address the growing demand placed on their cloud applications. The most significant improvement is under the hood, in the way that traffic is handled. The enhanced load balancing algorithm introduced with Nginx Plus 6 factors latency ...
IBM puts Watson on course to revolutionize health care
IBM is setting out to create yet another cloud-based incarnation of Watson that will collect and analyze data from every corner of the medical field to help promote the development of new healthcare services. The task of building the platform has been assigned to a new 2,000-strong unit within the fast-rising business division group formed ...
RethinkDB releases first production version of its real-time database
The competition in the data management world is moving up yet another notch with the release of what is touted as the first production-ready release of RethinkDB, the open-source document store from the startup of the same name. The launch brings the enterprise a major step closer to the era of real-time applications. Although companies ...
Stack Overflow’s record-shattering developer survey sheds new light on the state of coding
Professional programmers are mostly self-educated, love their work and make comfortable salaries, particularly if they work with hot languages like Objective-C, Node.js and C#. They are overwhelmingly male, although there is some evidence that is changing, and they make an average of nearly $90,000 in the U.S., although Ukrainian coders have the highest standard of ...
Teradata’s new Hadoop-based engine finds patterns in data deluge
There is a dizzying array of free and commercial business intelligence components available for Hadoop, but Teradata Corp. thinks that the industry could do with another one. The data warehousing stalwart’s new entry into the space promises to make short work of the multi-structured transmissions coming off the connected universe. The aptly-named Dashboard Engine for ...
Amazon’s new machine learning service turns ordinary developers into data scientists
Following in the footsteps of its rivals, Amazon Inc. is launching a new cloud-based machine learning service meant to help automate the process of parsing the vast amounts of data produced on the Web. The target audience are the developers building the applications that make use of that information. That’s best reflected in the inclusion ...
What you missed in Big Data: New beginnings
Last week saw the competitive lines of the analytics ecosystem redrawn once again after Informatica Corp. agreed to leave the stock exchange in a $5.3 million buyout representing the biggest transaction of its kind this year. The landmark deal marks a new leg in the data integration stalwart’s two-decade journey. With its revenues stalling amid ...
What you missed in Cloud: Evolutionary change
The competitive focus in the public cloud switched gears from revolutionary to evolutionary advances last week as the big players brought their capabilities up to par with the latest trends. Microsoft Corp. set the wheels in motion after launching a data-driven security function for its popular email service. The optional extension adds a filtering layer ...
